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HENRY PURCELL

(1659-1695)

1.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z 50

3:21

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Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z 135

6:32

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Latin motet

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Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

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O sing unto the Lord, Z 44

13:07

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Verse anthem

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Peter Hicks treble

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

PELHAM HUMFREY

(1647-1674)

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O Lord my God

12:28

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Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

5:52

from Evening Service in E minor

for six-part semi-chorus, four-part choir, and organ

Peter Hicks · Alec D'Oyly trebles

Tom Blackie · James Imam counter-tenors

Julian Gregory tenor

Huw Leslie bass

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Magnificat

3:39

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Nunc dimittis

2:11

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HENRY PURCELL

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Behold, now, praise the Lord, Z 3

6:10

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My beloved spake, Z 28

11:20

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Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z 15

2:40

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Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z 49

8:04

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'Bell Anthem'

Verse anthem

for soloists, four-part choir, strings, and continuo

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

: 69:41

Solo:John Challenger organ

Choral: Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge

Orchestra: St John's Sinfonia

Conductor:Andrew Nethsingha

13--15 January 2012

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HENRY PURCELL

(1659-1695)

1.

Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z 50

3:21

Full anthem

for five-part choir

2.

Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei, Z 135

6:32

Latin motet

for soloists, five-part choir, and continuo

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

3.

O sing unto the Lord, Z 44

13:07

Verse anthem

for soloists, four-part choir, strings, and continuo

Peter Hicks treble

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

PELHAM HUMFREY

(1647-1674)

4.

O Lord my God

12:28

Verse anthem

for soloists, four-part choir, strings, and continuo

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

Magnificat and Nunc dimittis

5:52

from Evening Service in E minor

for six-part semi-chorus, four-part choir, and organ

Peter Hicks · Alec D'Oyly trebles

Tom Blackie · James Imam counter-tenors

Julian Gregory tenor

Huw Leslie bass

5.

Magnificat

3:39

6.

Nunc dimittis

2:11

HENRY PURCELL

7.

Behold, now, praise the Lord, Z 3

6:10

Verse anthem

for soloists, four-part choir, strings, and continuo

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

8.

My beloved spake, Z 28

11:20

Verse anthem

for four-part choir, strings, and continuo

Solo: James Gilchrist tenor

Solo:Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

Solo: David Stout baritone

9.

Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z 15

2:40

Full anthem

for eight-part choir

10.

Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z 49

8:04

'Bell Anthem'

Verse anthem

for soloists, four-part choir, strings, and continuo

Solo:James Gilchrist tenor

Solo: Neal Davies bass

Solo: Iestyn Davies counter-tenor

: 69:41

Solo:John Challenger organ

Choral: Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge

Orchestra: St John's Sinfonia

Conductor:Andrew Nethsingha

13--15 January 2012

Notes

Established in the 1670s, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge is today one of the finest college choirs in the world, known and loved by millions for its recordings and concert tours. On this album, the Choir and St John’s Sinfonia, conducted by Andrew Nethsingha, perform works by Henry Purcell and Pelham Humfrey. They are joined by four soloists: Iestyn Davies, James Gilchrist, David Stout, and Neal Davies.

Humfrey was an English composer of the seventeenth century, known mainly for his verse anthems. Being well travelled, he produced works that in their vocal character show the influence of Italian music, and in the instrumental writing that of French music. That said, from these major foreign influences Humfrey forged a personal style that is uniquely English. Although as a composer he was generally forward-looking, his music also shows sub-elements of the English Golden Age of yesteryear. O Lord my God, for instance, is influenced by John Dowland’s celebrated Lachrimae Pavan of almost eighty years earlier.

In contrast, the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis were composed simply to be liturgically appropriate, with a text setting that is naturalistic and direct. Humfrey died at the age of twenty-seven, but even at this young age, he exerted a strong influence on his peers, including Henry Purcell, who as a young boy sang treble in Humfrey’s Chapel Royal Choir.

The works by Purcell recorded here range from works written when the composer was in his teenage years (Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei being a masterly example) to the crowning glory of the recording, O sing unto the Lord, which Purcell wrote when he was in his thirties, and compositionally on fire. At this stage of his career no other composer could touch him. Instruments and voices sing from the same hymn sheet, form and content are inseparable, past and present musical styles seamlessly intermingle, technique and virtuosity are indistinguishable from each other – and soloists and choir mesh together in a dazzling and life-affirming way.

Reviews

“ ... The recording is spacious and clear; the performances excellent and the music inspiring.”

Michael Ullman – Fanfare – May/June 2013

“One more highly commended release from Chandos Works range from a rather sublime performance of the much-loved, short, Hear My Prayer, O Lord through to the more substantial works O Sing unto the Lord 9Purcell) and Humfrey’s O Lord my God. .. with the soloists including countertenor Iestor Davies, tenor James Gilchrist, bass Neal Davies and baritone David Stout, this could not fail to be a superb rendition. Beautifully paced, radiant music from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, St John’s Sinfonia, and the baton of Andrew Nethsingha.”

EM Marshall-Luck – Spirited – The Gazette of the English Music Festival – December 2012

**** Excellent album

Xavier de Gaulle - Classica magazine - April 2013

" The performances are technically outstanding and thoroughly persuasive in style ..."

"... It is nice these days to have a chance to hear some of Purcell’s church anthems sung by a choir of boys and men, a sound one imagines to be nearer to what the composer knew than the cleanly blended one we have become familiar with from adult mixed-voice choirs This is great music ..."

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